The software was terrible. It didn't do a lot, and at the time, basic was basic was basic, so switching to those hyper powerful 8086s in 1986 was trivial. Things have come a long way. You have word processors, audio/video processing, large and powerful development environments, lots of eye candy, etc... This means, if students get to cut their teeth on perfectly fine Open Source tools, they won't really want to pay for the same experience once they graduate.
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